entertainment - "book"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic book movie 'The Incredible Hulk' added about $1 million in box office muscle to its debut weekend, pushing the film's total domestic ticket sales to $55.4 million, according to final studio figures on Monday.

AUSTRALIAN supermodel Elle Macpherson's bedroom secrets are about to be revealed in a new tell-all book, according to a report in the US.

This summer is the summer of innocence, with heartfelt films and a positive pop soundtrack to match. All thanks to a cute, inquisitive heroine based on a line of dolls and books, and three handsome yet virtuous brothers who perform in a pop band.

Rome's diocese said it has barred the producers of 'Angels & Demons' from filming in two churches for the prequel to the 'The Da Vinci Code,' the popular book and film that angered many Catholic leaders.

In his new book, Washington: The Making of the American Capital, Fergus Bordewich reveals how Washington, D.C., became the nation's seat of power and — perhaps a lesser-known fact — how the historic enslavement of African-Americans played a role in that designation. Bordewich talks about his new book.

If you're going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically. Readers don't mind sex, we're very fond of it in some cases, but we do mind when it's over the top. And what jars in the racier bits jars overall. Underneath the adjectives and adverbs, there's a streamlined, engaging book in here. It just needed a firm editor on passages like these

AP - For the past five years, liberal books, especially the Bush-bashing kind, have been a thriving market. A new online club is betting that they can evolve from a market to a movement, long after the president has left office.

The book opens with a swordsman walking across the desert, soon to encounter mysterious priests kidnapping people, and caravan guards led by an ogre. Pure sword and sorcery, right? Not at all, as readers of 'Womb of Every World,' from last year's SFBC anthology Alien Crimes, will immediately realize. That story, moderately revised, represents a bit more than the first third of this novel.

Do you have a favorite children's book, one that you have read over and over? Whether you can recite 'Goodnight Moon' from memory or consider the cast of characters in Harry Potter as your personal friends, the fact is children's literature has influenced all of us. A recent furor in England over something called 'age [...]

Who doesn't dream of just one more book by their favorite author - a sequel to 'Stuart Little' buried in E.B. White's Maine barn, say, or news that Harper Lee has been sitting on a follow-up to 'To Kill a Mockingbird' all these years? So a new novel by Newbery Award-winner Madeleine L'Engle is, by [...]